ABSTRACTS DUE: MAY 1, 2008

SAAPHI is currently seeking abstracts related to the 2008 annual symposium on "Public Health Without Borders" to be held in San Diego, California, October 25–29, 2008

Topics of Interest
While abstracts reflecting new and innovative information for any area of public health that impacts African Americans will be reviewed, SAAPHI will be placing an emphasis on abstracts related to:
· Global Warming and the Health Impact on Vulnerable Populations
· Epidemiologic Transition of Diseases in the Lesser Developed World
· Trade Policies and its Impact on Global Populations
· An Emerging Public Health Crisis: Mental Health

Abstracts should be related to one of the above topics. SAAPHI encourages integrative approaches to promote the health of individuals and communities through scientifically based interventions, intervention guided-research, and health policy advocacy.

When choosing which track to submit an abstract, authors should select the one they feel best represents the contents focus. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed and ranked for quality, topic applicability, and relation to overall Section priorities. At least one presenter must be a SAAPHI member.

Students are especially encouraged to submit abstracts pertaining to their academic research. Up to two student finalists who are first and presenting authors on their contributed abstract will be eligible for the SAAPHI’s Student Achievement Award when submitting their abstract online. The top two student finalists will be judged on their abstracts for presentation, style, and knowledge of the subject matter. These two finalists will be awarded prizes of $250 for the 1st place winner and $125 for the 2nd place winner at the SAAPHI’s Business Meeting. Winners must be members of SAAPHI.
 

Requirements for Submission of Abstracts

Please adhere to the following guidelines precisely.

• Place the title of the abstract in lowercase letters, i.e., The effect of ….  
• Provide each author’s name (first initial, second initial, last name). The presenter’s name should be noted with an asterisk. 
• After the names provide one affiliation only, preferably of the presenter, in parentheses. 
• Abstracts should follow the format:  Purpose/Objective, Methods, Results and Discussion.
• Prepare abstract in word processor, adhering to the formatting requirements outlined below.  Then cut and paste it onto the electronic form.
• Do not use tabs at the beginning of a paragraph.
• Do not include figures or tables in the abstract.
• Use "the authors" rather than "we" in the abstract.
• Avoid using acronyms.
• Do not use any formatting features in preparing the electronic submission such as bold, underline, italics, and do not use special characters or symbols such as a , b , ± , £ , or ³ . Write out Greek letters (alpha, beta, etc) and use, for example, +/-, <=, => to represent special characters or symbols. Necessary formatting and special characters or symbols will be added with editing.
• The abstract (including title, authors and affiliation of presenting author) must not exceed 2,100 characters with spaces and hard returns.  
• NOTE: The character count can be checked in Microsoft Word.  
• Use Times Roman font face 12 point.
• Use single line spacing.
• Separate paragraphs with 2 hard returns.
• Do not use full or right justification.

Submit the abstract electronically from the web site.  An immediate confirmation will be returned electronically when the abstract has been submitted successfully.  You will receive email notification of successful abstract submission by June 1, 2008.  Please print that email as proof of successful abstract submission.  You will also receive notification of acceptance/rejection by August 1, 2008.  If you have NOT received a letter from the SAAPHI Secretary by that date, please contact:

Rebecca Hasson 
SAAPHI Secretary
rebecca_hasson@yahoo.com

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